Empa - Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces

Oct. 15, 2019 Welcome Jacopo!

Jacopo Oswald joins the lab to work on a PhD towards Van der Waals heterostructures for nanoelectronics. Welcome!

Oct. 01, 2019 Welcome Sofiya!

Sofiya Matviykiv joins MOMM Diagnostics GmbH and our lab as a postdoc. Welcome to our team! :-)

Sept. 17, 2019 A molecular bridge further

Stable molecular junctions using graphene electrodes ! - See our recent paper in Nature Nanotech. and the related News & Views.

Sept. 16, 2019 Seminar at 14:30, VE102

Thermoelectric properties of single molecule junctions - Pascal Gehring, Department of Quantum Nanoscience, TU Delft

Sept 12, 2019 Welcome Sofie & Nick

Our two new physics laboratory assistant apprentices, Sofie & Nick just started. We are happy to welcome them in our team and wish them an interesting and educative time with us!

Sept. 02, 2019 Seminar at 15:30, VE102

Binning and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center (BRNC): Infrastructure and Processing Capabilities - Dr. Diana Davila

July 23, 2019

Omar and Robin completed successfully the final exam of their apprenticeship and Andreas and Dominic did so with their the partial exam. Congratulation to all of them!

July 17, 2019 Summercamp @Empa

Our laboratory hosted the workshop "Unsichtbar sichtbar machen" on Empa's summercamp. Thanks to Dominic, Lars & Oliver for organizing.

July 16, 2016 Farewell Beatrice

Today was the farewell party of Beatrice Spörri. Thank you for your last three years of support and all the best wishes for your future & travel plans!

July 05, 2019 Semiar at 13h30, VE102

Chemical and Topological Evolution of Polymer Biointerfaces - Dr. Edmondo M. Benetti

July 03, 2019 Seminar at 15:15, VE102

Coherent lensless imaging techniques using terahertz radiation - Dr. Lorenzo Valzania

July 1st, 2019 Welcome Davide!

Davide Beretta joins the lab as a postdoc and will work on the thermoelectric transport properties of nanoscale devices. Welcome to our team =)!

June 28, 2019

Congratulations to Michi for successfully defending his master thesis: "On the synthesis of triphenylene derived conductive metal-organic frameworks for sensing applications"!

June 06, 2019

Congratulations to ~~Lorenzo~~ Dr. Valzania for your successful PhD defense!

June 03, 2019 Welcome to Chiara & Gökhan

Two new PhD join our lab! Chiara Cignarella is going to work on Van der Waals heterostructures for vertical transistors and Gökhan Kara on Ultrasensitive quantum dot field-effect transistor photodetectors. Welcome to our team =)!

May 20th Congrats Tornike for your new publication on Structural properties of ultrathin SrO films!

The paper entitled "Structural properties of ultrathin SrO film deposited on SrTiO3" just appeared in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

May 13, 2019 Groupouting

Nice weather accompanied our Group Excursion to Brissago Islands, Measuring Technology Group and Engineers/Technical Staff.

May 10, 2019 Seminar at 15.30, VE102

A force-controlled pipette with simultaneous ion current recording for perturbation of single cells in vitro - Prof. Dr. Tomaso Zambelli, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, D-ITET, ETH Zurich

May 02, 2019 Welcome Elena

Eleni Mavrona joins the lab to work on teraherz research on nanoscale systems. Welcome!

April 5th We had the visit of Prof. C. Schönenberger (Uni Basel) and his team today.

A few pictures are avaialble here. Thanks for the visit and thanks to all who helped prepare it.

April 4th Congrats Mathias for your new publication on QDot-Graphene Photodetectors!

The article just appeared in Advanced Optical Materials.

April 1st. 2019, Welcome Natalie, Nadia and Alexander!

Natalie Aeschbach joins the lab as a new administrative team member. Nadia Jimenez joins to work on her PhD on nanoscale neuromorphic devices. Alexander Flasby starts his Master thesis with us. Welcome all!

March 31 Group-s excursion to Flumserberg.

Three of the lab groups joined for a snow & cheese excursion to Flumserberg on March18-19.

March 29, 2019 Seminar at 10h30, VE102

Charge Transport through Magnetic and Electro-Active Layers of Polyoxometalates - Dr. Dominique Vuillaume, Institute for Electronics Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), CNRS,Lille

March 04, 2019 Welcome Anna!

Welcome to Anna Nyáry from Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She will spend some early springtime with us as academic guest.

March 11, 2019 Seminar at 10h30, VE102

Nano-optics in 2D materials - Dr. Pablo Alonso, University of Oviedo, Spain

Feb. 20, 2019 New EU Launchpad project.

Congratulations to Mathias and MOMM Diagnostics for the new EU Launchpad project "Rapid diagnosis of preeclampsia at the point-of-care" (PEPDOC) !

Feb. 19, 2019 Seminar at 15h30, VE102

Integrated quantum photonics: quantum emitters, detectors and circuits - Prof. Dr. Valéry Zwiller, Department of Applied Physics, KTH, Stockholm

Feb. 7-8, QuIET workshop

QuIET workshop - Quantum Interference Enhanced Thermoelectricity

1st year wokrshop, 7-8 February 2019

Feb. 1st. 2019, Welcome Peter!

Dr Peter Nirmalraj joins the laboratory as a new group leader on Functional interfaces and biosensing.

Feb. 1st. 2019, Welcome Oliver!

Oliver Schmuck joins the lab to work on his PhD on quantum transport and thermoelectric effects in nanojunctions.

Jan. 21, 2019 Seminar at 10h30, VE102

A sneak peek with light into opaque materials - Prof. Dr. Sylvain Gigan, Sorbonne Université, Paris

Jan 18, Hand-knitted molecules

Congrats Anton, Mickael and Jan for the new paper in Nature Communications.

Jan. 11, 2019 Seminar at 10h30, VE102

Extending silicon technology for high-bandwidth optical communications and neuromorphic computing - Dr. Bert Jan Offrein, IBM Zürich

Dec. 13, 2018 Congratulation Pit!

Prof. Peter Jacob received the 2018 Outstandig Paper Award for his paper "Power Device Burned Completely - ... "” at 44th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis held Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2018 in Phoenix. Congratulations!